Author Cynthia Bond to Read From Her Novel RUBY at LA LGBT Center, 3/1

The Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center proudly welcomes author Cynthia Bond for a free, one-night appearance. As one of the most important new novelists to surface in some time, Cynthia Bond has been receiving tremendous acclaim for her debut novel, Ruby, and will read from her work at the Center's Renberg Theatre on Sunday, March 1 at 8 p.m. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with the author, and copies of the book will be for sale at the event.

Ruby is an epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from a town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.

Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose. Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of man's dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love.

Cynthia Bond has taught writing to homeless and at-risk youth throughout Los Angeles for more than fifteen years. She attended Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, then moved to New York and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. As a PEN/Rosenthal Fellow, Bond founded the Blackbird Writing Collective in 2011. Formerly from East Texas, she now lives in Los Angeles with her daughter and teaches therapeutic writing at Paradigm Malibu Adolescent Treatment Center. A native of East Texas, she lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.

DETAILS:

WHAT: CYNTHIA BOND reads from her novel, RUBY

WHERE: Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles 90038 (one block east of Highland Ave.; just north of Santa Monica Blvd.) Free parking.

WHEN: Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8 p.m.

TICKETS: Admission: FREE (suggested donation $10); To purchase tickets, visit lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or call 323-860-7300.

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